Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Peter Rupert () and Giulio Zanella
Additional contact information
Peter Rupert: University of California, Santa Barbara

No 11235, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique genealogical design of the PSID and the random variation in the timing when the parents of first-born boys and girls become grandparents, we estimate a structural labor supply model and find a negative effect on employed grandmother's hours of work of about 30% that is concentrated near the bottom of the hours distribution, i.e., among women less attached to the labor market. Implications for the evaluation of child care and parental leave policies are discussed.

Keywords: grandparents; labor supply; child care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 J13 J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2017-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem and nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published - published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp11235.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Grandchildren and their grandparents' labor supply (2018)
Working Paper: Grandchildren and Their Grandparents Labor Supply (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp11235

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().